Here’s a taste of a few recent new companies and other moves, from assessments to job-posting technology to screening tools, to job sites for … Read more
What Thanksgiving Teaches Us About the Importance of Culture Fit
I have spoken numerous times about both the benefits and the potential detriments of using cultural fit in the hiring process. On one side many hiring … Read more
American Airlines Screening 20,000+ Applicants for Flight Attendant Jobs
American Airlines may be bankrupt and struggling with on-time arrivals, but it’s hiring flight attendants for the first time in a decade, and the … Read more
How to Avoid America’s Biggest Hiring Mistake
One of my frustrations with the recently completed political campaigns was the implication that if we elected Candidate A, our business problems would be … Read more
Computers Aren’t Ready to Take Over Hiring
If you are into the use of technology to support the hiring process, read the recent Wall Street Journal article about algorithmic hiring. It offers a very … Read more
7 Questions to Consider Before Hiring
You are ready to hire, but before you start slinging out job postings consider these seven questions. How fast do you want the candidate? Many hiring … Read more
The Boss Probably Is Nuts, But the Cat Lady Could Be Top Talent
Your boss may be a psychopath. Not in that “you know what that jerk did today” kind of way, but in the clinical, DSM-IV meaning. Turns out that … Read more
What’s New: Entelo; Jobdreaming; The Needle; Trucking Jobs; InsideTrak; Avature
A little of what’s new, from a “matching” site, to video, to job boards, a tool to find passive candidates, a place to review employers … Read more
Hire Candidates With These 5 Traits — or Prepare to Perish
Take 30 seconds to read this passage from this year’s Global CEO Study from IBM. You’ll find it either unsettling or reassuring based on your recruiting … Read more
Building an 80% Sales Force, Really!
I can’t begin to estimate the amount of nonsense used to select salespeople: show me your wage reports; sell me the pencil; what animal best describes you; … Read more